Nowhere to run: Traffic police conducting a roadblock in Central Malacca.
PETALING JAYA: A total of 403 people have been detained nationwide after the second day of the Ops Warta crackdown on traffic offenders with unpaid summonses.
Bukit Aman traffic chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Mohd Fuad Abdul Latiff said another 1,125 people with warrants of arrest against them had surrendered themselves since the start of the operation.
He said only two percent of the 1.59 million arrest warrants for traffic offenders were resolved before the start of Ops Warta.
A total of 217,048 summonses were also settled.
In Penang, a Penang Island City Council employee became the first person in the state to be charged in court with failing to settle his summonses.
The 26-year-old was ordered to pay a RM1,500 fine but was granted a discount of RM300 for 10 traffic offences.
He paid the RM1,200 fine.
The man was earlier nabbed by police during a roadblock along the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway yesterday morning.
He was among 16 people who were taken straight to court yesterday after being held at roadblocks and workplaces for having outstanding traffic summonses.
State police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Wira Abdul Rahim Hanafi said they were among 58 people picked up. The other 42 were released on police bail.
In Kampar, a foreigner was among five people with outstanding summonses arrested in Kampar.
Perak deputy traffic chief Deputy Supt Mahiri Hussein said two traffic offenders were arrested at a roadblock near Tasek, Ipoh, in the afternoon.
Md Shah Idullah, 30, from Bangladesh, was fined RM1,500 for three outstanding summonses.
In Kota Kinabalu, a bank executive was arrested at his office in Jalan Gaya and three others were detained at three roadblocks in the city.
City police chief Assist Comm M. Chandra said the four, aged between 25 and 55, would be taken to court on May 25, adding that four men who had arrest warrants against them surrendered to police.
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